Update: Hampton Bays Woman Who Hit East Hampton Couple on Sunrise Highway Charged With Driving on Drugs: Police

Update: 7:40 p.m.: A woman who plowed into two pedestrians on Sunrise Highway was driving high on drugs, police said.

According to New York State Police, the crash took place at 11:38 a.m. on Saturday.

New York State Troopers from the Riverside barracks responded to Sunrise Highway eastbound between Exits 64 and 65 in Southampton after a collision between a vehicle traveling eastbound and two occupants standing outside a parked vehicle on the right shoulder.

Police said Crystal Hayes, 34, of East Hampton and Christopher King, 38, also of East Hampton had parked a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee on the south shoulder of Sunrise Highway and exited the vehicle to observe a small brush fire on the north shoulder.

A 2007 Pontiac operated by Ulyana Yaremko, 20, of Hampton Bays was traveling eastbound in the left lane when the operator lost control and skidded sideways, striking both Hayes and King as well as the Jeep, police said.

Hayes was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital in serious but stable condition, police said.

King was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Yaremko was treated and released from Southampton Hospital and was subsequently arrested and charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, police said.

She will be held pending arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court, police said. Sunrise Highway was closed heading eastbound for approximately four hours, police said.

Original story: An accident on the Sunrise Highway between East Quogue and Hampton Bays left three injured, one seriously, Saturday, police said.

According to New York State Police, at 11:41 a.m., police responded to the Sunrise Highway, just east of Exit 64, and County Road 104, where a brush fire had broken out.

At 11:49 a.m., two individuals who'd been in a vehicle heading east "pulled over to take a video" of the brush fire," police said.

Another vehicle traveling east "lost control" and struck the pedestrians on the shoulder; both pedestrians and the driver of the second vehicle were injured, police said.

One person was "seriously" injured and was transported via helicopter to Southampton Hospital; the other two injured parties were taken via ambulance, police said.

The names of those involved are being withheld pending notification of next of kin, police said.

Sunrise Highway heading east remains closed, with traffic being rerouted at Exit 64, police said; the duration of the closure remains unknown as the investigation continues.

Westbound travel on Sunrise Highway is now open, police said.